A lot of families don’t have to go over the river and through the woods to get to grandmother’s house for the holidays this year. More and more families are living in grandmother’s house, and getting closer because of it.Many cultures support a tradition of multigenerational families living in one h…

Groupon deals can be great for helping small businesses build a following, but for one bakery in the UK, offering a cut-rate deal on cupcakes nearly bankrupted the shop.Rachel Brown’s Need a Cake bakery offered a 75 percent discount on a dozen cupcakes, bringing the $40 price down to $10. What she d…

Every year retailers ramp up the sales and hope to get into the black (hence the name) on the day after Thanksgiving. Either we are or are not in a recession, depending on who's information you wish to trust. Government talking heads like Bernake and Geithner will have you believe o…

Along with lost jobs and the housing market crash, America’s economic woes have taken another toll: one in six people — 49 million in all — are having trouble keeping food on the table, especially in Forsyth County. Although this Atlanta suburb’s average h…

Flying the friendly skies is one thing. Being forced to pony up the cash to do it while en route is something else entirely.But that’s what happened on a flight operated by Austria-based carrier Comtel earlier this week.